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Looking for some help from my fellow XDA folks.
I've been running my SGT7 in the dash of my car for just over a year, loving the hell out of it. Upgraded to CM9 and it runs so much better, so smooth, but I've got a few issues.
For anyone interested in what it looked like in my dash on Gingerbread, here's a video I took the day I installed it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC5c6OZLnzg
I'm having a hard time reading a lot of the text because of the small size on CM9, and the icons are so much smaller than on Gingerbread, making it hard to select icons while driving.
I installed DPI changer and tried several different DPI settings. The ones that turned it into "phone mode" really looked about perfect, but gave me no more ICS navigation buttons. I need those, as the metal frame that holds the device in my dashboard covers the hardware buttons. I REALLY do not want to go back to using Button Savior either.
Suggestions?
Any one?
I'm basically looking at running the phone UI but keeping navigation buttons I guess.
Perhaps a different launcher, with the dpi changed?
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Is it just me or just everything seem really big on this phone even with the font set to small? I feel like my S5 can fit a ton more content on the screen and they are supposed to be the same resolution. I.e. my keyboard takes up almost half the screen on the X. It feels like still 720p...
km8j said:
Is it just me or just everything seem really big on this phone even with the font set to small? I feel like my S5 can fit a ton more content on the screen and they are supposed to be the same resolution. I.e. my keyboard takes up almost half the screen on the X. It feels like still 720p...
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This is amoled technology, it looks like pixelated as u said but it have many advantage, amoled can produce much high ratio of color saturation than other screen, there are only one screen technology that can truly turn off pixel where black picture is, I mean at black colour, pixels are off, means true black you cant find any faint or visible black that is cool feeling when you see at black especially at night... This feature is my favorite.
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Mandeep148 said:
This is amoled technology, it looks like pixelated as u said but it have many advantage, amoled can produce much high ratio of color saturation than other screen, there are only one screen technology that can truly turn off pixel where black picture is, I mean at black colour, pixels are off, means true black you cant find any faint or visible black that is cool feeling when you see at black especially at night... This feature is my favorite.
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I dont think you understood my original question.
Yeah, the DPI is set pretty crazy on the phone. First thing I did was root and change the density to 380 instead of 480. That fixed the problem for me.
l2and said:
Yeah, the DPI is set pretty crazy on the phone. First thing I did was root and change the density to 380 instead of 480. That fixed the problem for me.
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Which app did you use?
If you are rooted just use a File explorer to edit the build.prop.
Be aware that the Camera app will no longer function if you change the DPI
knitler said:
If you are rooted just use a File explorer to edit the build.prop.
Be aware that the Camera app will no longer function if you change the DPI
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lol that is ridiculous - need a camera
km8j said:
lol that is ridiculous - need a camera
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If you want to change the build.prop, you'll need to mount /system as well.
After doing that, install Xposed and used the "App Settings" module. After the restart, go to app settings and change the DPI back on the camera and moto display if you're using the active notifications to 480 (com.motorola.camera and com.motorola.motodisplay). After that, you should be good to go with everything else. If you come across another app that looks funny or doesn't load, go back to app settings and change it.
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If you want to change the build.prop, you'll need to mount /system as well.
After doing that, install Xposed and used the "App Settings" module. After the restart, go to app settings and change the DPI back on the camera and moto display if you're using the active notifications to 480 (com.motorola.camera and com.motorola.motodisplay). After that, you should be good to go with everything else. If you come across another app that looks funny or doesn't load, go back to app settings and change it.
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But this cans the camera?
I tried the moto X in at&t store and also noticed the icons and text being a lot bigger. I tried using nova launcher and this displayed everything normally. I think the stock google now launcher is the problem
viking2.0 said:
I tried the moto X in at&t store and also noticed the icons and text being a lot bigger. I tried using nova launcher and this displayed everything normally. I think the stock google now launcher is the problem
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Yes, Google launcher has bigger icons that stock Android launcher.
Yes but everything is that way. Even individual apps are simply huge
Yeah they definitely should have tweaked the DPI for this phone. Most of it is fine (for me) but the icons are ridiculously large. Not going to give up the camera app to change it though.
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But this cans the camera?
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It will force the camera to stop working until you go into app settings using xposed and set the DPI to the camera back to 480. Once you do that, the camera will work just fine.
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Hmmm anyone else notice that the active display time and lock icon is all screwed up after changing dpi
Changing the DPI on active display app works
The annoying part is that Moto Display is only compatible with the stock DPI. I went from 480 to 400 today and everything is fine besides that and stock camera app crashes on opening. However, I use Google Camera so meh.
Yup, if you need your active display back. Change com.motorola.display back to 480.
There are a couple apps in the play store that will change the DPI for you.. DPI changer, texdroider DPI. Both work great. As mentioned, use the Xposed module "app settings" to change any app that is acting up, back to stock DPI. I've got the VZW variant, I may have to make an exchange to the pure edition. I myself prefer a much smaller DPI, as well as hiding my nav keys and enabling pie via LMT. Not to mention the Xposed module "Tinted Status Bar" which improves the look of the interface dramatically.
I always used 290 on my nexus 4 and it was great.
I really don't like how big the icons are stock. Any suggestions?
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I use Nova, Google Launcher icons are stupidly big
320 maybe
I wouldn't go 320... the stock value is 480.
I use 440, it's perfect for me. It could be smaller (but 320 is WAY too small), but with the large screen and bumbling one-hand use 440 is perfect. Plus if you don't use XGELS to modify the launcher settings, it adds a 5th column in the app drawer.
I will also add: if you change the DPI at all, Moto Display will be weird. It's just graphical, off center and funky icons. Xposed module App Settings allowed me to change the DPI of just Moto Display back to 480 and problem solved.
how do you change the dpi? the large icons are bugging me too
_bottle_ said:
how do you change the dpi? the large icons are bugging me too
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The large icons aren't a dpi issue, it's just the style of the Google launcher
_bottle_ said:
how do you change the dpi? the large icons are bugging me too
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Edit the build.prop.
I just use the app "textdroider dpi" to adjust mine
Just rooted 5.0. On 4.4.4, I had my DPI at 400 with the Xposed Module App Settings to correct Moto Display. Obviously, that's not an option on Lollipop. So, my questions is, does anyone know a way to correct this while maintaining a similar DPI to 400 and do it without Xposed?
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Just rooted 5.0. On 4.4.4, I had my DPI at 400 with the Xposed Module App Settings to correct Moto Display. Obviously, that's not an option on Lollipop. So, my questions is, does anyone know a way to correct this while maintaining a similar DPI to 400 and do it without Xposed?
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Yeah I just switched to 400 and I'm having the same issue, anyone have a fix for this?
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Yeah I just switched to 400 and I'm having the same issue, anyone have a fix for this?
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Don't think there really is a fix.. With xposed you could do per app DPI.. I've learned to deal with it being a little off center using 420 dpi
CWick4141 said:
Don't think there really is a fix.. With xposed you could do per app DPI.. I've learned to deal with it being a little off center using 420 dpi
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That was my plan but then I noticed that after some time it seemed to re-center, but the actual active portion of the screen doesn't. So I have to slide to the left of the actual unlock icon to unlock it (???). Weird.
I'm interested too, those icons and applications are too big for me. I feel like we don't benefit of the entire 5.2" screen 1920x1080 and 441 ppi... it shows exactly the same amount of content as a 4.2" screen with 150 ppi. I would be happy to find a little fix too, I have not enough skills to build it.
Maybe the key is to come back to Nexus' line, but the Moto X 2014 seem so perfect except that point.
Just install nova launcher
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Tried it. Indeed the desktop is better, but each time I launch an application like Youtube, Whatsapp or Settings for example, it feels I'm a old person who needs very big font size. I would like to see more on my screen, with smaller font size then.
Setting ourself the DPI would have been great.
I edit with pro build dpi with root explorer , perfect.
regards
Anybody else noticed that the phone icon hasn't updated to the flatter one after update?... Looks out of place
Well, I decided to keep my XT1092 and try it out with some tweaks. I'm on Lollipop 5.0 (22.21.19 reteuall).
I firstly unlocked the bootloader, secondly I rooted it with Multitool 4.1, and finally I used "adb shell wm density XXX" to change the DPI to 360.
PERFECT : I have no glitches at all, even Active Display is OK. So I recommend this very easy method to be happy with a good screen DPI.
Edit : my bad, after the 1st reboot, I have same problem with Active Display, but it's worth it.
There will be Xposed soon I hope, then I'll take it back.
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Well, I decided to keep my XT1092 and try it out with some tweaks. I'm on Lollipop 5.0 (22.21.19 reteuall).
I firstly unlocked the bootloader, secondly I rooted it with Multitool 4.1, and finally I used "adb shell wm density XXX" to change the DPI to 360.
PERFECT : I have no glitches at all, even Active Display is OK. So I recommend this very easy method to be happy with a good screen DPI.
Edit : my bad, after the 1st reboot, I have same problem with Active Display, but it's worth it.
There will be Xposed soon I hope, then I'll take it back.
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I found this too, but ended up going back to stock DPI for another reason as well: the back button does not get properly sized when you adb the DPI, it looks too big. Same goes for some of the status bar icons (for example the battery is larger than other buttons). Then there's the glitches like your profile icon in hangouts being way too big, the top developer icon in play store being way out of position, and the triple dots under the middle word suggestion on google keyboard being too large. Changing DPI is just a hassle and makes the phone uglier, which is a real bummer because this phone desperately needs a better DPI setting.
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I found this too, but ended up going back to stock DPI for another reason as well: the back button does not get properly sized when you adb the DPI, it looks too big. Same goes for some of the status bar icons (for example the battery is larger than other buttons). Then there's the glitches like your profile icon in hangouts being way too big, the top developer icon in play store being way out of position, and the triple dots under the middle word suggestion on google keyboard being too large. Changing DPI is just a hassle and makes the phone uglier, which is a real bummer because this phone desperately needs a better DPI setting.
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I don't have your problems...
Maybe it depends on which number DPI you are, mine seems OK with all of this. Also, I set "Small" font size in the settings. I got one "big" problem for me anyway, I can't use Swiftkey with this, there is a strange bug with this keyboard, I will post an screenshot later.
With such a huge screen, why didn't Google allow the home screen to display in landscape orientation? While I have never wanted this functionality before, it seems like it would be great here. I'm assuming there's no way to do this without root?
You can... download a third-party launcher such as Apex Launcher or Nova Launcher. You can find them on the play store and then make the launcher to be landscape mode or portrait based on the orientation of the phone.
If you want this feature with google now launcher then there is no way to achieve this, not until Xposed is made to work using ART
They had to follow Apple this time. The iPhone 6 plus has this feature due to larger screen.
nyijedi said:
With such a huge screen, why didn't Google allow the home screen to display in landscape orientation? While I have never wanted this functionality before, it seems like it would be great here. I'm assuming there's no way to do this without root?
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You can try forcing the homescreen rotation with Ultimate Rotation Control:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nl.fameit.rotate
Let us know whether it helps.
nyijedi said:
With such a huge screen, why didn't Google allow the home screen to display in landscape orientation? While I have never wanted this functionality before, it seems like it would be great here. I'm assuming there's no way to do this without root?
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yep huge annoyance, especially since 1) iphone (!!!) now allows this and 2) google themselves allow it on android tablets
The launchers rotate, but the navigation and notification bars don't. Or at lease I have not been able to figure out how to make them do so. I know a custom ROM will fix this at some point, but part of the reason I bought this phone was to use as a micro tablet.
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You can try forcing the homescreen rotation with Ultimate Rotation Control:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nl.fameit.rotate
Let us know whether it helps.
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Son of a gun....this works! I just installed it and haven't used it yet to see if it keeps on working consistently, but so far, so good. Thanks!
hi guys... somebody here knows correct values (if possible) of DPI so that on our NOTE 9, apps will simulate the tablet interface?
jd14771 said:
i just set my dpi to 600 and chrome and a few others changed to tablet mode. Not all apps will "change" though.
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thanx for the reply sir.. you did not have any issues with app crashing at 600?
tried 600.... but gboard and even samsung keyboard is not usable anymore.hahaha
I have always used 576...( I use a larger font size)
The only app that caused trouble is Samsung keyboard but I use SwiftKey anyways... Swift key beta can be resized specifically to your needs...
With 576 I have never seem tablet mode
Just tested.... Default samsung won't turn to tablet mode with any dpi change...
Techvir said:
I have always used 576...( I use a larger font size)
The only app that caused trouble is Samsung keyboard but I use SwiftKey anyways... Swift key beta can be resized specifically to your needs...
With 576 I have never seem tablet mode
Just tested.... Default samsung won't turn to tablet mode with any dpi change...
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too bad we cannot maximize the use of our screen size... really would love tablet mode....
jd14771 said:
So, usually I use 500 DPI min width because that is the lowest DPI I can set that fools Beautiful Widgets into thinking I have a tablet. That way I can use the larger tablet widget. After comparing things with a screenshot today, im using 549dp now as the keyboard fits better.
But I set my phone back to 600 again and I was able to use chrome beta, chrome, Google phone, settings, Gboard.
Please note I only have Samsung files and Samsung note left installed when it comes to Samsung's apps, the rest have been uninstalled and replaced with googles version. I got tired of using 2 app stores to keep apps updated, and Samsung apps scaled terribly.
At the 3nd I also attached a picture of what 500 DPI looks like 9n google chrome. Seems every app has its own value that transitions design from phone to tablet. I prefer the phone layout of Chrome with DUET enabled so that the menu bar is at the bottom.
Fun Fact, you can force dark more on chrome using chrome://flags on Android.
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thanx sir for the help... nice find with the tips
at 600 dpi... gboard layout is very much different.which i think is not gud (my opinion)
thanx for the screenshots bdw ?